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Instigated by the philosopher Bernard Stiegler in 2006, Centre Pompidou created Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI) to anticipate the evolution of relationships between cultural institutions, their works, and the public. in August 2008, IRI has been founded as a research non-profit organization backed by Centre Pompidou, the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Art, Microsoft France, ENSCI – Les Ateliers, Institut Telecom, the University of Tokyo and the Goldsmiths College in London. Since its creation, IRI has been exploring the cultural and cognitive technology fields, aiming to create new information systems that address users’ needs within the cultural world and elaborate the required cultural technologies. IRI develops digital technologies intended for amateurs, researchers, and artists.

IRI’s research program focuses on three theoretical research issues (ecological awareness, amateur practices, design of the new industrial world) with three technological research axes (knowledge and document engineering in critical apparatus, collaborative technologies and social networks, multimodal interfaces and mobility in instrumented cultural practices).

Three years after its foundation within Centre Pompidou, three main activities drive IRI: an R&D workshop, a college of in-residence experts, and a critics corner. A research program is also in place in association with the Virtual Centre Pompidou project. Exhibitions such as Víctor Erice / Abbas Kiarostami : Correspondances and Traces du sacré are principal illustrations of this collaboration. IRI’s research currently supports two lines of development: annotation software for audio and video flow Lignes de temps and the collaborative platform L’Amateur.

IRI’s major collaborative projects include FUI/Cap Digital Cinecast (film and social network cinema annotations), a project led by NETIA/Globe Cast/Orange, Cap Digital THD platform project (testing of services and contents on very high-speed networks) and ANR Eulalie 2 project for audio-visual based collaborative journalism, led by Orange.

Listen to the recording : http://amateur.iri.centrepompidou.fr/nouveaumonde/enmi/conf/

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Screenshot of Lignes de temps

Computer science workshop, dedicated to research and development in Art mediation technologies in collaboration with artists in residency, invited scientists/experts and with partners from Research and Industry. Our research activity cross Human science topics (Judgment and Esthetics, New Amateur practices, Modernity, Design, Knowledge technologies/Nano technologies) with 3 Computer Science disciplines :

- Knowledge and document engineering : annotation tools and critics instruments (Lignes de temps for film, text and image annotation),
- Web 2.0 and online collaborative tools (collaborative Web site and review "L'amateur", Web 2.0 experimentations),
- Public address and mobility (collaborations with Education sciences and school teachers, experimentations on mobile devices for Centre Pompidou exhibitions, prospective studies on mobility, ambient intelligence and nanotechnologies).

DOWNLOAD Lignes de temps NOW ! With Lignes de temps you can analyze, comment and annotate films and any audio/video recordings.

- PC :
  - Simple version 0.10.8.4 (37 Mo)
  - Version 0.10.8.4 including F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu described and documented (195 Mo)
- MAC (see the FAQ to know your configuration) :
  - Version 0.10.7 for Power PC - OS 10.4 tiger
  - Version 0.10.7 for Intel - OS 10.5 leopard

  Once downloaded, double-click on the installer and follow the proposed guidelines. When installed, import a video file (formats: avi, mpg, mov or flv) or an audio file (mp3) using the menu: File -> Import.

  Important reminder:

  - Depending on your computer power and file size, Import may last from few minutes to more than 20 or 30 minutes.

  - This version is a beta version, this means it contains bugs despite our continuous attempt to correct them. Some videos may not be imported or the software may crash, and your work could not be saved. See the FAQ.

  To know more about the software : Exhibition flyer, software flyer, user's guide and license.

  To use "Lignes de temps" directly on the web with F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, click here. You can also see a demonstration of the software (in french).

  For any information, feedback or problem, contact@iri.centrepompidou.fr.

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Gathering artists, scientists, experts in residency for seminars and conferences on the different issues tackled by the Institute.

- Signed views workshops
- Theory and Judgment seminar
- Judgment and Theatre seminar
- Images and faces sessions
- Culture 2.0 seminar
- Nanotechnologies seminar
- Modernity seminar
- Judgment and practices seminar
- Signed readings workshops
- Museology, museography and new public adresses seminar
- New Industrial World Forum

To subscribe : contact@iri.centrepompidou.fr

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Lignes de temps , another sight over Abbas Kiarostmi and Víctor Erice works

The Espace critique is composed by documentary resources, critical elements in relation with Centre Pompidou Cultural Dept. activities and annotation tools developed by the IRI.

This computer disposal, online with the review "L'amateur" (opening in 2008), can also be sometimes available in Centre Pompidou exhibitions or in spaces related to Centre Pompidou Cultural Dept. activities (Shows, Cinema, Audio reviews, Forums de Société).

A new system for visitor guidance and participation

To enrich the exhibition Traces du sacré (Centre Pompidou, May 7th - August 11th 2008), a new multimedia system is accessible to listen to curators and figures from the world of culture and the art. Visitors can also record their own comments, using the multimedia guide or their mobile phones. Afterwards, visitors will be able to access their audio comments on the Internet, modifying, annotating and indexing them, thanks to the software Lignes de temps, before publishing them on a collaborative web site developed for this event.

To consult comments: http://web.iri.centrepompidou.fr/traces

Visual credits : Jakob von Narkiewicz-Jodko, Effluves d'une main électrifiée posée sur la plaque photographique, mars 1896, épreuve à la gélatine argentique, 18,1 x 12,9 cm, Fonds Camille Flammarion, Société astronomique de France

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Watch the interviews following the press conference of May 14th, 2009 (in French) on http://www.tivipro.tv
Download a document about IRI (in English)
Download an article about IRI (in French)
Download a document about Lignes de temps (in French)
Flyer espace Lignes de temps (in English)
The RIAM/Cap Digital Cine Lab project

See an article about Lignes de temps in Culture & Recherche (in French)